Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A tax cut is no good to people when they live as far away as Loop Head and suffer a heart attack. They can only hope they will stay alive long enough for the ambulance to reach them. A wealth fund is little consolation to a cancer patient who has spent an entire weekend on a trolley in a corridor in the most overcrowded hospital in the country, the figure of which stands at 104 this morning. The Taoiseach said there has been a reduction of 100 nationally. That has had no impact on University Hospital Limerick, UHL. A tax credit is also no good to a suicidal person who has just been discharged from an accident and emergency department with no aftercare and who feels like they have absolutely no hope.

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